OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward Complementary Intelligence: Integrating Cognitive and Machine AI	141
Facing Ambiguity: What We Do in the Space Between Stimulus and Response	119
Music, Memory, and Imagination	104
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	89
Historical Psychology	71
Positive Affect Dynamics	65
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	43
Metacognition and Uncertainty Communication in Humans and Large Language Models	43
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	41
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	40
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	37
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	36
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	36
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	36
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	35
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	35
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	34
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	33
Motivated Egalitarianism	31
Crossing Boundaries: A Culture-First Approach to Studying Early Learning	31
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	31
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	31
Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights	31
An Integrated Immuno-Reward Model of Adolescent Depression: Theory, Evidence, and Implications	29
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	29

Parenting by Lying	28
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	27
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	27
Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence	26
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	26
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	25
The New Psychology of Secrecy	25
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	24
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	24
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	23
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	23
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	23
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	22
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	21
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	21
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	21
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	21
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	21
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	20
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	20
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	20
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	19
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	19
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	19
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	18
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	18
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	17
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	17
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	17
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	16
Ecospirituality	15
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	15
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	15
Generative Behaviors as Key Targets for Cognitive Models	15
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	15
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	15